linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/workqueue: Remove lockdep annotation from __flush

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Message-ID: <1540483286.66186.22.camel@acm.org>
Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:01:26 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "tytso@....edu" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/workqueue: Remove lockdep annotation from
 __flush_work()

On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 17:31 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Remove
> > the lockdep annotation from __flush_work() because start_flush_work()
> > already has such an annotation.
> 
> This part at least isn't true, there's no annotation on the work
> *struct*, only one on the work *queue*.

You are right - I will drop this patch.

Bart.